Jumia

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Court sentences Man to 66-yr-old in prison sexually abusing Orphans

On Wednesday a federal
high court in Austin U.S., sentenced a 66-year-old Texas man who managed an
orphanage in Malawi to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing children in his
care. U.S. prosecutors said that Gerald Campbell of Odessa, who pleaded guilty
in May, could have faced up to life in prison, according to papers filed in
federal court in Texas.

They said that
Campbell reached a plea agreement and admitted to engaging in sexual acts with
eight minors, all of whom were orphans living at the Victory Christian
Children’s Home in Malawi between 1997 and 2009.

The prosecutors said
that Campbell admitted that he knew that what he was doing was wrong and that
he thought nobody would believe the minors if they reported the abuse his home
to sexually abuse them.

They added that
Campbell said that because his home had more amenities than the orphanage and
he used that to entice a few of the children to live with him for several
months.